Saturday, April 27, 2013

As summertime approaches, we turn our thoughts to vacation travel.So how did the concept of "vacation"
come about.Well, as you likely surmise,
the movement from an agrarian economy to specialized industry obviously plays a
huge role in the ability to "get away" while not greatly impacting
your ability to create wealth by taking care of livestock or crops.

The modern concept of vacation travel is generally
attributed to the "Grand Tours" taken by upper-class Europeans (who
obviously had the economic means and were not required for daily work).These travels were mainly meant to be
educational:learning various cultures,
perfecting their language skills, and maintaining cultural common ground
between and among the ruling elite.

The economic limitations of this kind of extensive travel
was logistical:there were few roads and
limited mechanical means.With the
advent of the steam locomotive and expansion of railway systems, the ability to
readily travel moved down the economic scale and by the mid-1800s, travel for
recreation or tourism became common place among the upper-middle class.And with the industrial revolution, labor
shifted from the farm to plants and assembly lines, where the need for any one
individual was not so crucial for production as on a family farm.(We should not forget the legal introduction
of work rules here either!)

The final piece of the puzzle for U.S. vacations is the
automobile and corresponding road system (set up, by the way, by Eisenhowser's
Interstate Highway System), which made cheap travel possible for almost all on
the economic ladder, and contributing to several other industries, one of which
is the travel case industry, and specifically for ChasingTreasure.com, the
jewelry travel case.More
on that in our next blog!

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